The Renaissance
Renaissance literally means this, or to begin anew.
What is rebirth?
This person began the reformation by nailing 95 theses or arguments to a church door in Germany.
Who is Martin Luther?
What is the heliocentric or the sun is the center theory?
This is where the Renaissance started thanks in part to their watery connection with the Muslim traders of Africa and Asia.
What is Italy?
The main reason the reformation began was because the Catholic Church sold these, which were ways to buy your way into heaven.
What is an indulgence?
Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon are two philosophers and scientists credited with creating this method used in science classrooms all over the world.
What is the scientific method?
A main theme of the Renaissance was this term that focused on educating people in the ways of the classics (Roman and Greeks).
What is Humanism?
This person caused the English to break with the Catholic Church after the Pope refused to annul or cancel his marriage.
Who is King Henry VIII?
The scientific method's main idea is that this should be the rule that governs science.
What is natural processes or the natural world?
In Northern Europe this device revolutionized the way people could access books and increased literacy.
What is the printing press?
One new protestant religion was called Calvinism led by John Calvin. He believed in this, or that people were already chosen to be saved upon birth.
What is predestination?
This thinker is credited with three laws of motion, which we still use today.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
A key characteristic of the Renaissance was art which focused on realism. This technique was discovered to make paintings more lifelike.
What is perspective?
When the reformation spread radical new ideas appeared like this one, which was proposed by the anabaptists.
What is adults should only receive the sacrament of baptism?
This thinker discovered multiple different planets, and moons. He was also locked in his house for saying the sun is the center of the Solar System.
Who is Galileo Galilei?